Leslie Thomas, writer of The Virgin Soldiers, died aged 83 | Daily Mail Online 'He had a wonderful life, he travelled the world': Writer Leslie Thomas who wrote national service novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died aged 83 Leslie Thomas died at his home with his family aged 83 after a long illness Books include The Virgin Soldiers and Last Detective, adapted for ITV The 'immensely popular' writer was awarded an OBE for literature in 2004 Mr Thomas was orphaned and raised in children's home from age 12 He is survived by wife Diana, four children and four grandchildren Welsh writer Leslie Thomas, best known for The Virgin Soldiers, dies aged 83 - Wales Online News Welsh writer Leslie Thomas, best known for The Virgin Soldiers, dies aged 83 Thomas, who was orphaned aged 12 and raised in a series of Barnardo's homes, became a successful novelist Share Welsh writer Leslie Thomas and wife Diana (Photo: Johnny Green/PA Wire) Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Welsh-born novelist Leslie Thomas, 83, has died after a lengthy illness.

His wife Diana told the Western Daily Press : “He had a wonderful life and he travelled the world. All he ever wanted to do was write and that is what he did. “He died at home with his family around him.” Thomas was born into a seafaring family in Newport in 1931. Orphaned at 12 years old, Thomas was raised in a series of Barnardo's homes before going on to become one of Britain's most successful novelists. He started his career as a reporter on a weekly newspaper before working on Fleet Street with the London Evening News, where he covered major stories including the trials of Nazi war criminals. However, it was his time as a national serviceman in Malaya that inspired his most famous novel The Virgin Soldiers, a comic tale of British soldiers based in the Far East that became a bestseller and hit film. Thomas, who was given an OBE for services to literature in 2004, wrote more than 30 novels, non-fiction and travel books over his career. His publisher was among those who paid tribute to the novelist today.

Penguin Random House Group divisional managing director Susan Sandon said: "Leslie Thomas was an immensely popular author with a huge gift for storytelling and a wonderful sense of humour. "His books have given so many people pleasure over the years, with their mix of great characters, strong sense of time and place, and unique ability to combine laughter and tears in the space of a few sentences." He leaves his wife, four children and four grandchildren. Like us on Facebook Leslie Thomas 1931-2014: Tribute to the Barnardo's boy turned best-selling author | UK | News | Daily Express UK Leslie Thomas 1931-2014: Tribute to the Barnardo's boy turned best-selling author FOR a generation of now elderly men Leslie Thomas was their spokesman. They were boys during the Second World War but were man enough to be called up for National Service in the late 1940s and 1950s and sent to the other side of the world to defend the empire in its dying days.

00:15, Thu, May 8, 2014 Best-selling Leslie Thomas pictured outside of his home [REX] Leslie Thomas gave them a voice - and a nickname - with The Virgin Soldiers, his biggest-selling novel about his experiences as a serviceman fighting in the jungle of Malaya (now Malaysia). It sold more than seven million copies worldwide and was made into a successful film but years later he would claim it had done so well only because the word "virgin" was in the title. He was also an effective spokesman for another group of youngsters. Orphaned at the age of 12 Thomas and his nine-year-old brother Roy were put into separate Dr Barnardo's homes. Life was tough with meals consisting of two rounds of bread and dripping in the morning and two slices of bread and jam in the afternoon. "I must be one of the few who owe their lives to school dinners," Thomas would joke. But he was always grateful for the start that Barnardo's gave him and always supported the charity. He was also one of its vice-presidents. "I have never denied how important a part it played in my life," he said. "There was a great esprit de corps among the boys.

We were always recognisable by our blue jerseys and shorts but we felt the other kids were the outsiders, not us. People think you grow up with a chip on your shoulder but it never injured me. Children are optimistic and resilient, not sentimental at all. I never had any doubts that things would go right for me." I've had a fascinating life Leslie Thomas Events showed his optimism was justified. He was 13 when he earned his first money from writing - the princely sum of half a crown (12.5p) for an essay on Norwich Cathedral. Barnardo's gave him his first typewriter and the material for his first book, the autobiographical This Time Next Week, published in 1964, which became a GCSE set text. Leslie Thomas was born on March 22, 1931, in Newport, South Wales, into a family of sailors. His father was a Merchant Navy stoker - "a real character, the sort who would set out for the corner shop to buy tobacco and turn up two years later having been to Spain". During the Spanish Civil War his father's ship was blown up in Barcelona harbour and the names of the crew read out on the radio.

To young Leslie the notion that the BBC knew his father's name was more astonishing than the thought of him being dead. In fact Thomas senior had survived the attack. For Leslie the outbreak of war was exciting. He was buying potatoes for his mother when Neville Chamberlain's sombre announcement came on the radio and the greengrocer clipped him round the ear for whistling. Leslie Thomas pictured in his uniform in 1949 [PH] In 1943 his father's ship was sunk by a German U-boat. This time Thomas senior was not so lucky. Six months later Leslie's mother died of cancer although the death certificate cited "exhaustion" as the cause. Aware that she was dying she had sent Leslie and Roy to Dr Barnardo's a month earlier. They never saw her again or went to her funeral and 50 years passed before Leslie even saw her grave. After her death Roy was fostered while Leslie remained in the children's home in Kingston, Surrey. The orphanage sent him to a technical school to learn bricklaying but he yearned to be a writer. Eventually he got a job with a paper in Willesden, north London.

"He was an excellent reporter," recalls former Daily Express journalist David Eliades, who befriended Thomas when they were both cub reporters and remained a close friend for 64 years. "He had a wonderful grasp of how people said things and knew how to ask questions in a way that would get an interesting reply. That's why the dialogue in his books rings so true." In 1949 Thomas was called up for National Service and sent to Singapore. He was assigned to the Royal Army Pay Corps which allowed him enough free time to sing at Raffles Hotel. The fun ended when his unit was despatched to the jungle to fight communist insurgents. "The jungle was pretty terrifying," he recalled. "I remember we were sent up country again, this time on trains. This was particularly dangerous as the terrorists had a habit of jumping on to the roofs of the moving trains and firing down on the squaddies." It was his experiences "up country" which provided the material for The Virgin Soldiers. But first Thomas had many other stories to write.

After returning from the Far East in 1951 he worked for local newspapers before joining the London Evening News, which sent him on many assignments abroad, including the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel. "It went on for weeks and weeks but on the last day he was a bit late as he was held up by security checks," recalls Eliades. "When he made it into court George Gale the Daily Express man had to inform him he'd just missed Eichmann being sentenced to death!" Even after the publication of This Time Next Week Thomas continued working as a journalist until the success of The Virgin Soldiers in 1966 made him a household name. It gave him the financial security to write full-time. He wrote more than 30 books in all, including Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective which was made into a TV series starring Peter Davison. With his second wife Diana, Thomas moved to a house close to Salisbury Cathedral, the subject of his last book in 2010. Former prime minister Edward Heath lived four doors away and often came round for tea and cake. Barnardo's paid tribute to one of its most dedicated supporters last night.

Acting deputy chief executive Diana Tickell said: "Leslie Thomas never forgot the support he received when he and his brother were taken into Barnardo's care and Barnardo's are very grateful for the support he gave us." He was awarded the OBE in 2004. Worsening health with heart problems and rheumatism meant he could no longer play his beloved cricket, golf and tennis or indulge his love of travel. He and Diana moved to a large house outside Salisbury which enabled their son Matthew and his family to live with them. Leslie Thomas died aged 83 at home on Tuesday evening and is survived by Diana, four children (three from his first marriage) and four grandchildren. "I've had a fascinating life," he was fond of saying. Optimistic and grateful to the end. Related articles LESLIE THOMAS told the enthralling story of his childhood in a Barnardo's orphanage | Daily Mail Online comments Best-selling writer Leslie Thomas died earlier his month aged 83. Success brought him fame and riches - all a world away from his youth.

Orphaned in 1943, he was sent to a Barnardo's home in Surrey, as he recalled in this enthralling memoir. A small, pointed wind blew the rain into my face. It was March and I had been 13 just a few days before. I shuffled along beside the man who had brought me, and when he turned in at the gate of the Dr Barnardo’s home in Kingston upon Thames, I followed. Then I stopped. It may have been only for seconds, because the man was walking on, but I know I stopped and looked up at the vast building. A quick loneliness came over me, like a pain. No boy has ever felt so much by himself as I did in that moment. Leslie Thomas (centre) was sent to a Barnardo's home in 1943 after his mother died of cancer, months after his father had been killed in the war I am not going to pretend that the years that followed were hard, or cruel, or even unhappy. This was not so. This is no Oliver Twist story. But standing at the gate in the drizzle, I was afraid and wondered what was going to happen to me.

It seemed only a few dark nights before that my mother had read to my brother and me that jerking melodrama of a London orphan. We had cried copious tears and thanked Providence that we were so much more fortunate. But then, in 1943, my father’s ship had been torpedoed in the South Atlantic, drowning all the men on it. Some months later, my mother became ill with cancer. My younger brother, Roy, and I were sent to a Barnardo’s home in Devon while she was in hospital. Some time later, I was told that she had died. Now I, like the boy in the story, was an orphan. Leslie Thomas playing with the Barnardo's football team, pictured with the ball From Devon I was sent to Dickies — as the Barnardo’s home in Kingston was known. Roy was sent to a different home. It was 18 months before I saw him again. Strange as it seems, in those first weeks at Dickies, there came on me a sort of settled happiness. After that first pang of apprehension, I never again felt afraid, nor continuously unhappy.

There grew from this ugly old place, with its dripping rooms, hollow dormitories and riotous boys, a sense of warmth, of familiarity, of fun; of fellowship that was strong and real. Dickies’ boys were a rollicking, war-like tribe, united by their bond and the constant adventure of keeping one move ahead of the Gaffer, as Mr Gardner, the home’s superintendent was known. He was not a man you could love, the Gaffer, but he was a good man in his narrow way. He was growling and grey, thin, and with a slight stoop. If the stoop was slight, his cynicism was large. He was entitled to it. Forty of his 60-odd years he had occupied with boys, and he had an all-embracing distrust of anything in short trousers. Leslie Thomas, right, with his brother Roy, left and their mother The first boy I met when I arrived was Boz, also called Cherry or Shinybright because he had a red nose. Every boy acquired a nickname according to his physical attributes or disposition.

Breadcrumb George had a habit of gathering all the breadcrumbs from the table, piling them up and sweeping this harvest into his mouth with a deft movement. Porky was a fat boy, Chesty a wheezer. Leslie Thomas, pictured was orphaned when is mother died of cancer in 1943 Ear’ole had a mangled ear, Bosky was cross-eyed and Grandpa had a hairy face. I was called Monkey, for no particular reason. One day the Gaffer sent me into Kingston, along with Grandpa, to collect a pair of goats that he had purchased. I never worked out why he wanted the wretches. When we saw the animals, we knew we were buying trouble. One was fawn and white and the other white. Both had pink, sleazy eyes and sniggering expressions. They were the nastiest, most conniving, vicious, stealthy, sly, sinful and stinking inmates Dickies had ever known. I have never looked upon two more debauched creatures. We tied some string around their necks and set off. At first, the putrid pair trotted along willingly.

But then the white goat spotted a trolleybus going at a spanking pace and charged at it. The bus driver hit his brakes ferociously and the ungainly vehicle skidded and stopped. There was huge confusion, traffic squealing, passers-by trying to tug the white goat away from the trolleybus. The conductor had fallen into the road. In the middle of it all, the fawn goat I was holding had a hearty pee all over my boots. Eventually we got them back to Dickies and the pair began a reign of terror. ‘The goats are out!’ the cry would ring. The bulls of Pamplona caused no more scattering than this. One got into the kitchen and gobbled up a cloth on which some pudding had been steamed. Within an hour it was dead. The other goat lived for years. Despite being orphaned at such a young age, Leslie Thomas managed to become an internationally renowned author Even when you are only a boy, for an unexpected moment you can get mixed up with history.

One spring afternoon I saw a car, as jet and as smooth and shiny as a rounded beetle, stopped at the kerb near Dickies, a crowd of boys bunched at its side, chewing industriously, talking and laughing. In front of the car were three motorcyclists, armed with revolvers, which they showed the eager boys. There were two men in the rear seat, one in Air Force uniform, the other in khaki with fingers of medal ribbons over his pocket. His hair was sparse and when he grinned his mouth was like a banana. I had seen him in the newspapers — he was a general called Eisenhower. He was saying: ‘OK, this is the last pack. Who wants it?’ I had poked my head down to look into the window. He said: ‘Here, son, you have the last one.’ He gave me a packet of chewing gum and I thanked him. Then the car slid away. That evening the Gaffer caught me with the gum.

‘I’ve told you boys time and again,’ he snorted, ‘that I won’t have you talking to men — and especially American soldiers.’ Leslie Thomas praised his time at Barnardo's and is one of the most famous 'old boys' One night not long after that, I heard the slow grind of an aeroplane, or what I thought was one, overhead. Abruptly the voice of the plane stopped. There were ten seconds or more of drifting silence. Then far away, but clear, came an explosion. Flashes like wings of big white birds flew across the dormitory. Guns began to bite into the dark outside and the air-raid siren sounded. We clattered downstairs out into the crashing night and down the hole into the air-raid shelter. That was the first night of the flying bombs. Every day they fell. We lived like moles, rushing out from our shelters to grab meals while we could. One evening in chapel, we were nearly obliterated by yet another missile skimming the roof and crunching somewhere much too close. When we had picked ourselves up, the Gaffer ordered us to run for the shelters. As we passed the food store, Breadcrumb grabbed my arm.

‘Blimey,’ he said. ‘Look. They’ve gorn and forgotten the door.’ The food store was gaping. We flung ourselves through the opening. Mr Thomas was awarded an OBE in 2005, pictured alongside his wife Diana We were in an Aladdin’s cave of prunes, figs, eggs, sausages, condensed milk, sugar, butter and Lyons’ fruit pies. We loaded our pockets and our jerseys with good things, then fled into the shelter just as another bomb shattered the air. The bombs flew every day and night. The Gaffer, ancient and brave, used to come tearing through the shrapnel and the hideous noises, fall down the entrance to the shelter and make sure we were all accounted for. Then out he would go into the danger and run on his elderly legs to another shelter. He was a hard old bastard, but he would have perished willingly rather than have had any harm come to the roughest, rowdiest young criminal of the 150 boys in his care. Soon our situation became so exposed that we were loaded onto lorries and deposited at a house in Narborough, a village in Norfolk.

It was in Norfolk that I came to know the things I loved. Afternoons in winter when the light goes early; water in its wild state, and shadows on water; lanes and roads in summer, empty and dusty; voices calling across the fields at night. Mr Thomas, right, was made famous by The Virgin Soldiers And strong, sweet tea and warm jerseys, wild animals who do not see you first, trees, old maps, books and letters. Every clear morning; seagulls, big blackbirds and homecomings. The first weeks there were full of hot days; days of an almost mythical boyhood summer. In the afternoons we went swimming in a wide lake that lay low behind the trees, a couple of miles away. We swam stark naked, feeling the joy and the freedom of the gentle water. Then winter came. One afternoon, when the grass was white and sharp and frosted, as fine as the bones of the trees against the muddy sky, and there was a hard, stony cold in the air, I walked across the iron lawns into the distance.

Author Leslie Thomas described his time at Barnardo's as 'a strange and wonderful misadventure' I stole into a run over the rutted ground and the coldness on my face melted. I shouted and some woodpigeons, hunched like robbers in a tree, broke and curved away into the sky. They were free and so was I. At the end of the park there was a big tree that I had often climbed in summer. Naked now, it stood alone on the grass. I climbed up, each hold and place to catch your foot returning to mind readily. I scrambled and kicked and cut my shins on the trunk until I made the top of the fine tree. I stood there, on its head almost, looking out to the house with its yellow lights, to the last red stain of the sun in the other direction. Of things done, and things remembered, that is the brightest of them all. The best of all good things is to be happy. And I was happy then. Shortly before his mother's death, his father died after being torpedoed in the South Atlantic We were taught by an angular and earnest woman, who could be persuaded into the most gloriously fighting tempers. We delighted in provoking her.

Once I was stood behind the blackboard for punishment, and I poked the pegs, holding the board out from behind, bit by bit, so that abruptly the blackboard descended on her foot. Everyone thought it was very funny. Then the Gaffer got news that a great gang of Irish workmen had moved in and occupied his beloved Kingston Home. We had to return to retake possession. For a while we shared the home with the Irish. One morning I woke up to a delightful smell. I slid out of bed and followed the summoning aura. On the landing I found Boz crouching. Down below us, the Irishmen were lining up before a steaming altar of sausages, bacon, eggs and fried potatoes. After a few minutes, the queue came to an end and the two white-aproned women who were serving went on a tea break, leaving their beautiful trays of steaming food unattended.

According to Mr Thomas, every boy at the Barnardo's home was given a nickname based on his physical attributes We slipped down the stairs like a pair of hunting panthers, and helped ourselves from the sizzling trays, then shot back up to the dormitory, where we stealthily devoured our sausages, bacon and fried potatoes, hunched in the caves of our beds. We did this each cold dawn until the Irishmen went away. The other kids could never understand why we used to give away our breakfast of bread and dripping. Many years later, I went back to Dickies. I stood before the house, remembering the mangy goat charging with terror and destruction on his horns, and steamy Saturday nights in the gym watching a film, and just as the hero was about to put the heroine down on a bed of straw, the Gaffer leaping up, waving his arms and shouting, ‘Stop it! Cut it off! No more of this filth!’ According to the author, his friends at the Barnardo's school had nick-named him Monkey 'for no particular reason' Every childhood is a meadow. Ours was stubbly and had weeds and stony places.

But there was sweet grass, too, in patches, and days of sun and freedom and happiness. And, at its end, there was the gate to the Outside, with a notice, hung on its top bar that said: ‘Shut the Gate Behind you,’ which was an instruction as final as any. Yours was the real world, to live in, to make fortunes, to die violently, or to remain in unremarkable sameness. Return as you might, Dickies was never yours again. It was all a strange and wonderful misadventure. * Leslie Thomas, This Time Next Week, first published in 1964 by Constable & Company. Leslie Thomas 1931-2014 - Writer Pictures Leslie Thomas 1931-2014 Craig Naples The author Leslie Thomas has died aged 83 . Though he was a prolific novelist, writing more than 30 books (one a year between 1966 and 1979), he’ll be best remembered for his Virgin Soldiers series based on his years of National Service.

Though as a teenager I often wondered what saucy delights might hide between the covers when I saw them in the library, I never got round to reading them. Leslie Thomas (left) in Edinburgh with Evening News columnist John Gibson 29th October 1981 Photograph by Stan Warburton/TSPL/Writer Pictures WORLD RIGHTS (Stan Warburton/TSPL/Writer Pictures) I do, however, recall poring over my mum’s copy of The Hidden Places of Britain , which I presume was by the same author, a county-by-county list of places that these days would all have brown signs pointing them out but, back then, were little known. I marvelled at all the strange and interesting towns, villages and monuments so close yet so far out of reach. I even used it to plot a (never-undertaken) tour of Britain the summer I got my first car.

Leslie Thomas with some of his books in Edinburgh 2nd February 1971 Photograph by Denis Straughan/TSPL/Writer Pictures WORLD RIGHTS (Denis Straughan/TSPL/Writer Pictures) I particularly like this 1971 picture, which is so very 70s, with the elegant Jason King moustache and cravat set off by cheap hotel furniture. Leslie Thomas at the Radio Forth offices in Edinburgh 6th September 1983 Photograph by Bill Newton/TSPL/Writer Pictures WORLD RIGHTS (Bill Newton/TSPL/Writer Pictures) He wrote well into his seventies, his last published book being 2007’s Soldiers and Lovers . I suspect the humour in his earlier books might not pass muster these days (naming an Asian character Fuk Yew for the sake of a gag sounds a bit iffy to me), maybe it’s time to revisit his work, which is still easy to get hold of. And I’ll definitely be hunting down Hidden Places… again. EDIT: 16th June 2014. Having now got hold of a copy of Hidden Places, it’s really not the book I remember at all.

It is still quite good, though. The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving: Amazon.co.uk: Leslie Thomas, Gregory York: 9780753106860: Books The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. Customers also viewed these available items Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Paperback Â£9.99 Amazon Prime Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Apple To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. or Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . Product details Publisher: ISIS Audio Books; Unabridged edition (31 Oct.

1999) ISBN-10: 0753106868 Product Description About the Author Leslie Thomas was born in 1931 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen he became a reporter, before going on to do his National Service. His novels include: The Virgin Soldiers, Orange Wednesday, The Love Beach, Come to the War, His Lordship and The Man with the Power. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item? By A Customer on 17 Aug. 2000 Format: Paperback If anyone is looking for an escapism then this is the book for you. From start to finish it makes you laugh and think of what you would do in the same situation. You think you know whats going to happen next then you dont. It gets better everytime I read it. The scenes are so diverse its like hes in the wrong place all the time.

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Success brought him fame and riches - all a world away from his youth,Â ... Leslie Thomas is the founding Executive and Creative Director of ART WORKS Projects. She is also an architect, Emmy-award winning art director, and mom. 20 May 2014 ... Leslie Thomas, a top-selling British author who parlayed his experience as a soldier in Malaya into a darkly comic, wildly popular novel inÂ ...

Question: Which author who wrote The Virgin Soldiers died earlier this month aged 83?
Answer: LESLIE THOMAS